Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overseas Albanian fund raising, on a much smaller scale, has been going on since the early part of the decade, when Milosevic began cracking down on the province. From 1991 onward Bukoshi's "government" was collecting a tax of 3% from most of the estimated 600,000 Kosovar Albanians who worked in Western Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland. (Patriotic Kosovars were encouraged to set up standing orders with their banks to pay the tax every month...
...kick-started by balancing the federal government's then blood-red budget books. A credible deficit reduction plan would please the bond market, the former arbitrageur argued, and that would translate into lower long-term interest rates. That in turn would stimulate the economy, which would in turn boost tax revenues, which would in turn make deficit reduction a reality. It's known as a "virtuous cycle." Six years later (with an assist from the Gingrich Republicans) the surplus is over $100 billion...
...infuriated that Harvard plans to cut its own contribution to financial aid to students in the wake of Congress's decision to increase grant money to students. Just as it has done with the tax code, Harvard is using the system to promote itself, rather than students, for whom government money was intended. It is enraging that taxpayer money, intended to be used as financial aid, will go into Harvard's overstuffed belly...
...infuriated that Harvard plans to cut its own contribution to financial aid to students in the wake of Congress's decision to increase grant money to students. Just as it has done with the tax code, Harvard is using the system to promote itself, rather than students, for whom government money was intended. It is enraging that taxpayer money, intended to be used as financial aid, will go into Harvard's overstuffed belly...
This program, which borrows ideas from Ashcroft on the right to NOW on the left, can hardly be called partisan. Nor can it be called self-serving. If it had been in effect years ago, I would have paid Social Security tax on much more of my 1995-97 income. And my proposed means test would bar me from collecting much, if any, future pension benefits...